Billionaire Ted Turner’s resume already includes launching CNN, loading up on huge tracts of land in Montana, and donating $1 billion to the United Nations. Lesser known, perhaps, is his role as an investor in renewable energy.

Ted Turner and his Turner Renewable Energy unit teamed up for the second time with Atlanta-based power company Southern Co.
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For an undisclosed dollar amount, Turner and Southern Co. purchased the 154-acre, 20 megawatt Apex Solar Project in the City of North Las Vegas from Sun Edison, a unit of MEMC Electronic Materials
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“We created this partnership to explore large-scale solar power generation projects to expand the technology’s viability as a commercial-scale provider of electricity,” Turner said in a prepared statement.

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